takes me back what it does
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 18:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
that were good
― idgi fridays (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
You don't see people sit out on the porch much. Kids certainly don't play in the street anymore. And when we do venture outside, we climb in our cars, crank the A/C and the radio, pick up the cell and don't even bother to honk our horns.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/14/AR2011011406549.html
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Time was we would venture outside, climb in our cars, crank the A/C and the radio, pick up our cells, and not even bother to honk our horns.
Now however nobody would even pick up their car keys without first raping every one of their neighbours and ending the ordeal with a moneyshot of sulphuric acid.
Bus stops.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
"We are losing the art of letter writing. E-mails are becoming like texts. If we don't get a handle on it, future generations won't be able to spell at all."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12247262
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 January 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
if only everyone was a spelling stickler, what beautiful words would be spoken.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 21 January 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Have you heard the music these days? It's all "ooh ooh" this and "shhhhhhhwaaaaaahhhhhhh". Future generations won't be able to open their mouths without literally killing their neighbors to death.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 January 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
the country's full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.
― conrad, Friday, 21 January 2011 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've been banned from my local pub for not being Polish. Inclusivity my arse!
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2011 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Think they own the place
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 January 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, I think they actually own the place
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 January 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
In the old days if you got on the wrong side of a German you would find a bomb dropped on your city. You knew where you were. Today if you could even find that same German, chances are he'd be in panorama bar with the little woman.
Fact of the matter is, you're just a statistic
― colby, Sunday, 23 January 2011 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Britain’s Eurovision hopeful Antony Costa unfastens his trousers then casually urinates against a cash machine.The singer – whose group Blue were chosen to represent the country in the song contest just three days earlier – is pictured near Trafalgar Square, only 30 yards from a public toilet.The 29-year-old father of one relieves himself while deep in conversation on his mobile phone, leaving a pool of urine on the pavement.After finishing the call, he reaches into his back pocket for his wallet.He eventually re-fastens his trousers – with total indifference to other people needing to use the Post Office cash machine – after withdrawing a wad of notes.
The singer – whose group Blue were chosen to represent the country in the song contest just three days earlier – is pictured near Trafalgar Square, only 30 yards from a public toilet.
The 29-year-old father of one relieves himself while deep in conversation on his mobile phone, leaving a pool of urine on the pavement.
After finishing the call, he reaches into his back pocket for his wallet.
He eventually re-fastens his trousers – with total indifference to other people needing to use the Post Office cash machine – after withdrawing a wad of notes.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 6 February 2011 10:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Touting for the French vote.
― Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 February 2011 10:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
― tbch, i only see piranhas (tpp), Sunday, 6 February 2011 10:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^ that is probably nsfw, btw
― tbch, i only see piranhas (tpp), Sunday, 6 February 2011 10:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
He eventually re-fastens his trousers – with total indifference to other people needing to use the Post Office cash machine – after withdrawing a wad of notes. LAD.
― a gadfly within the ranks of the nationalist far right (history mayne), Sunday, 6 February 2011 10:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
He has literally pissed over every hard-working family that uses the Post Office. An animal would know better.
― Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 February 2011 10:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's clear from his face he has demanded Winston Churchill forces his mouth open, and delightedly pumped urine down the great man's gullet. As a final "one in the eye" for Britain, he "shakes" the remaining droplets on the corpse of a soldier, abandoned in Oxford Street by Tony Blair.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 6 February 2011 11:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
No sooner has he refastened his trouser cord than he's at it again, this time the pop hopeful "has a wank" at the home of music legend Robin Gibb, who has diabetes.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 6 February 2011 11:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
When I was a kid I didn't have an XBox, or Wii. I had a bike and a curfew (the street lights). Mum didn't call my mobile, she yelled outside, "time to come in". I played outside with friends, not Online. If I didn't eat what my mum made me then I didn't eat. Hand sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap. Re-post this if you drank water out of a hose...and survived!
(from facebook)
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Thursday, 14 April 2011 19:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Music? Nowadays people just listen to computers.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ A+
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
At least when you drank water out of a hose it tasted like water. Now it just tastes like plastic. Why can't you buy a proper tomato anymore, these ones just taste like water.
― Genuflection X (oppet), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
My mother's voice literally was our dinnerbell.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
I played outside with friends, not Online.
Argument slightly undermined by being posted, er, online.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
If I didn't eat what my mum made me then I didn't eat.
And if you got rickets and kwashiorkor, then that was your lookout, parents instilled personal responsibilty in their malnourished kids in those days
― None'll come and then a lot'll (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
As a taxpayer, you're lucky to be drinking from the pipe without a hefty fine from the cowboy hose police.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
We've lost the meaning of vowels
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hosepipe ban is ridiculous I mean it only rained last Tuesday for goodness sake and don't try to tell me it didn't because I remember getting soaked on the way back from paying my newspaper money to the Pakistani lad in the corner shop.
― Genuflection X (oppet), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's a new kind of person comes in the shop now. They're the ones buying things. If it wasn't for them we'd be bust. Neighborhood's changed. Used to be all British people here, now look at it.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
It doesn't rain enough. The only reason my garden doesn't look like a French holiday camp is thanks to the youths pissing on my lawn. You could take your dog for walks.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thought this revival was going to be about a Daily Mail article today about the 14 year old who died at a party in West London:
But one of her teachers blamed her downward spiral on an addiction to the internet. J@ye Williams@n, who was Isobel’s English teacher at Chiswick Community College, in west London, said: ‘She was into the kind of things that teenagers get into, but she got hooked on the worldwide web. She was part of the Myspace generation. She got caught and we are devastated.’
Not linking to the distasteful article - but people speaking to papers should keep a respectful silence.
― Bob Six, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is what happens when you ride recklessly down the super information highway.
But in seriousness, I googled the article and, yep, it's fucked.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fucking hell, that's my old school.
Daily Mail article is predictably grim reading.
― Genuflection X (oppet), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
in my day teenagers used the "word wide web" responsibly and were educated enough not to get trapped in metaphors, this is gordon brown's fault
― Romford Spring (DG), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's a shameful indictment of today's skew-whiff standards, but we have to face the fact that social workers can and will administrate the force-feeding of drugs to children nowadays.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 12:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
We had sad 'kinda lol but mostly sad'-expressions on our faces here when we heard the teacher literally say this to the BBC cameras yesterday.
― My Life with the Thrill Kill Nult (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 12:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
It was on the 10 o'clock news btw
the social fabric has been literally rent apart and communication with one's fellows is all but impossible. each day I see teenagers and pensioners fall to blows in the streets over their inability to smoothly navigate around one another in shop entrances and on sidewalks. they're little better than the packs of wolves that swoop in to chase them off of a fresh carcass, they are.
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh god that teacher, she actually said there was "too much knowledge".
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
In my day it was learning timetables and capitals of the empire by rote, and THAT WAS IT. Kids nowadays learn on the internet how to drug themselves into a coma.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
what happened? society used to be something you could point to and feel proud, like a boat. now you need to consult with three government clerks and a panel of so-called experts just to find out where the damn thing is, and by the time you get there it's likely closed early for Ramadan. unfathomable! they've literally gone beyond the pale!!!
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
what calls itself "society" today wouldn't have passed muster on the playground when I was growing up! we used to form up ranks and march all through the school grounds showing off our fathers' guns; in fact, we liberated a good deal of France that way before any of us even realized what was going on. nowadays, if teens line up at all, it's for the grand opening of some new sex shop or 'fusion' restaurant. no thank you!
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
society literally could not be any worse if you took a hammer to it — but good luck finding one that doesn't fall apart in your hand on the walk home!
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
dying
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
everything worthy of the name "society" breathed its last sometime in the 1980s. they've kept it alive on a machine ever since, so that friends and relatives might still enjoy the simple pleasures of holding hands and stroking hair. but now they're going to unplug it, because someone thinks that money would be better spent funding sex-change operations for vicious stray mutts who are, they tell us, only lashing out at the world because they're "confused". well they're not the only ones!!!
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
wish i hadn't search out that teacher article in the mail now. led me to the story of the goalkeeper who got punched
club owners say "he will be banned from the club until further notice"
How about for fucking life? the prick.
― if you wanna gamble, take that shit to vegas (Ste), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw, the goalkeeper won't be banned obv
Someone on my Facebook linked to that teacher article saying that the first thing they thought of when they heard about it was Summer Heights High's Mr G, which strikes me as a grimly accurate observation
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:57 (2 years ago) Permalink